February the 7th marks the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, one of the greatest authors in history.
To celebrate this landmark, location based sharing app Spottd have produced an innovative way to celebrate his bicentenary.
The team at Floxx Media Group have built the Victorian author his very own profile on Spottd which allows users to step in the footsteps of Dickens’ London and recreate the magic of his books.
The added feature to the app demonstrates the power of social media as it makes use of the app’s location based technology to pin point Dickens’ favourite London hang outs and the locations from his novels. This not only records history in the process, but also provides a window in to Dickens’ life and contemporary society, as well as an insight into the inspiration for his works.
Floxx Media Group Founder and CEO Rich Martell: “We are delighted to give our users the opportunity to discover the magic of Dickens on his 200th birthday. To this day London maintains an air of Dickensian magic and Spottd will allow users to explore that magic for themselves whilst also learning about the history of our great City.”
Among others the app has pin pointed the following places of interest to Dickens’ fans:
· The coffee house where Dickens used to publish his weekly magazine ‘All Year Round’
· Dickens marital home where he wrote the Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist
· The Old Curiosity Shop on Portsmouth Street
· The Prospect of Whitby Pub where Dickens was something of a regular
· The place where Fagin and his gang lived in Oliver Twist
· The site where Charles Dickens’ father was imprisoned which is the main setting for his novel Little Dorrit
· Where Madame Mantalini from Nicholas Nickleby had her dressmaking shop
· The island where Bill Sikes is chased and accidentally hangs himself after killing Nancy in Oliver Twist
· The Dickens family home in Camden Town
· The hotel in Covent Garden where Pip from Great Expectations stays when he comes to London
· Dickens’ final resting place in Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey
Spottd is free to download from the iTunes store.
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